I disagree about NSMB. That game was better than Yoshi's Island, imo (to be fair, I didn't like Yoshi's Island), and probably as good as SMB3. It's a great game which brings back the fun Mario gameplay we know and love, its only flaw is that it's a bit short.
Super Paper Mario, on the other hand, is a whole different ball of wax. I don't compare it to classic Mario games because I don't think it's trying to emulate them, it's doing its own thing.
If you bought a tv in the last 10 years that doesn't have component input, you either shop at the salvation army, or got ripped off. Nice over-generalization, there. Get a sufficiently cheap TV, and it won't have component inputs. When I picked up a TV to take to college back in 03 or 04, it came without component input.
"The only problem with Microsoft is, they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste", Steve Jobs back in the 80s And then Apple went on to invent the hockey-puck mouse. Morpheus was right, fate does have a sense of irony.
And I guess somehow I should believe that Microsoft solutions are always the best? WTF... No, you shouldn't.
Perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but you came off 100% as the typical OSS fanboy who believes that MS products are nothing more than a waste of money, and that for every possible problem, OSS is the best solution. Forgive me if I misjudged, but your post screamed "OSS fanboy and unreasonable MS-hater" to me.
Anyways, I've found that people who make their living on Microsoft are Microsoft to the bone. Hardly worth attempting to tell them about something new/interesting in OSS because if it ain't MS, it doesn't exist. They'll be happy to wait 5-10 years to get it from Microsoft. While your jab has some merit in it, I'll turn that right around and point out that you don't have to look very hard in the OSS crowd to find the exact opposite of what you specified: nothing MS does could possibly interesting, no matter what it is. If it's MS, it's automatically inferior.
No shit,.net is Windows-only. Got any other insights you'd like to share? Here's a news flash:.net is a joy to work with. The class libraries work well, C# (if that's what you're using, it's what I use) is a nice language, the only bad thing about working in.net is that you're restricted (for now) to deploying to Windows.
And I have done a bunch of Java stuff,.net works better than Java. Java was a good language for a while, but now, unless you want the cross-platform compatibility it brings, there are far better choices out there.
Secondly, it just might be time someone learned a little about Linux and OSS because dumping money into MS solutions is so yesterday. Bashing Microsoft and assuming that their product can't possibly be the best one to fit a given person/organization's needs is so yesterday.
The icing on this troll cake is how you imply that running Windows is archaic. Glad to know that most of us are in the stone age, I guess?
Servers shouldn't have GUIs Wrong. Servers should have both configuration methods so that people can use the one they prefer, not the one forced upon them by the developers.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with text file configuration. Pure bullshit. Text file configuration can work well, but to say there's nothing wrong with it is insane. Prime example: if you're an apache novice, and you go download a copy of apache to learn it, the httpd.conf is so vast and intimidating that it could scare someone off altogether (now, I don't have a lot of respect for that person's willingness to learn, but I digress...). Text file configuration tends to be bigger and more unwieldy than GUI configuration, although it has its advantages, as you've already noted. Any program worth its salt should provide both methods of configuration, not just one. There ARE problems with both methods.
Bitter, much? IE7 is vastly superior to FF1.0 (the last time I bothered to try FF). Given how much I hear about FF becoming slow and bloated as it goes on, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's still vastly superior to the new version of FF, since FF, from what I hear, only has gotten worse over time.
And I, frankly, see nothing wrong with Microsoft "forcing" (not like you're actually forced to get the update) you to upgrade to the new version of IE. If you're not using it, why the hell should you care? If you were still using IE6, I can sort of understand being irritated if your browser suddenly goes away due to automatic updates (although I can't understand why you'd prefer IE6 to IE7)... but then again, that's why you shouldn't have the damn things on anyway.
No, I play most of my games on the PC. Bioshock is not consolized.
And I do happen to think that the Halo series (the PC versions, not the Xbox versions) represents the pinnacle of FPS games. And I've played all the shooters people say are better (Half-Life, for example). Any other stereotypes you've drawn about me that you'd like me to debunk?
Not necessarily. For example, if the original game were too complex, the follow-up could be less complex and not be dumbed down in any way. It isn't dumbing something down to make it useable.
Regardless, saying Bioshock is a dumbed-down, consoleized mess is a load of shit. If that's a dumbed-down, consolized mess, every FPS ever made is. It's a perfectly fine FPS with some RPG elements thrown in, there's nothing consoleized or dumbed-down about it.
I'm sorry, but SMK is, hands-down, the worst in the series. Sure, it was good for its day. It's terrible now, and the only thing, imo, that keeps people attached to it is nostalgia and rose-colored glasses.
The OP most certainly did not say that. Apparently you, sir, are fucking blind. The OP said that things are "rapidly progressing" towards that level of tyranny. Quite different from calling it equivalent.
No one says that the US, as it stands today, is like the tyranny of the USSR. The goal of such comparisons is to remind people of what we could turn into if we go too far, and to prevent such a horror from ever happening to us.
Not many hardcore gamers in any territory are going to want to own the system that their grandma and little sister thinks is cool. That probably sounds harsh, but that's the way 18-24 year old males think No, that's the way that 13-18 year old males think, maybe 13-20. Once you get above 20 or so, in my experience, people grow the fuck up, and buy a console based on what it has available, not whether their grandma or little sister likes it. Hell, I'm 22, and a proud Wii owner.
I disagree, I think Double Dash was a ton better than DS. In the end, though, Nintendo will be hard-pressed to go wrong, no matter what they do. They'd just better let me steer with a Cube controller if I want, I doubt that steering wheel is going to do it for me.
(Pardon me for being cynical, but I can't help but be afraid that a company like EA, known for mediocrity, is going to drag down Bioware, known for excellence)
I hate it when people demand to play like that. I have friends who like to play no items, on Final Destination, and I refuse to play smash bros with them for the most part. The items, and the random crazy shit that happens, are what makes the game fun! Cut that out, and you cut the soul of the game out. Not to mention that Final Destination is entirely too trippy for my eyes.
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Super Paper Mario, on the other hand, is a whole different ball of wax. I don't compare it to classic Mario games because I don't think it's trying to emulate them, it's doing its own thing.
True, but they took out Assault in this version of UT! Bastards had to go and remove their best mode! *tantrum*
Again, sir, you assume that my FPS experience is limited to Halo. You do yourself a disservice. I've played Tribes.
Perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but you came off 100% as the typical OSS fanboy who believes that MS products are nothing more than a waste of money, and that for every possible problem, OSS is the best solution. Forgive me if I misjudged, but your post screamed "OSS fanboy and unreasonable MS-hater" to me.
Both sides are equally wrong.
And I have done a bunch of Java stuff, .net works better than Java. Java was a good language for a while, but now, unless you want the cross-platform compatibility it brings, there are far better choices out there.
The icing on this troll cake is how you imply that running Windows is archaic. Glad to know that most of us are in the stone age, I guess?
And I, frankly, see nothing wrong with Microsoft "forcing" (not like you're actually forced to get the update) you to upgrade to the new version of IE. If you're not using it, why the hell should you care? If you were still using IE6, I can sort of understand being irritated if your browser suddenly goes away due to automatic updates (although I can't understand why you'd prefer IE6 to IE7)... but then again, that's why you shouldn't have the damn things on anyway.
Concise, yes. Easier to read, no. There's no difference in ease of reading between the two, imho.
And I do happen to think that the Halo series (the PC versions, not the Xbox versions) represents the pinnacle of FPS games. And I've played all the shooters people say are better (Half-Life, for example). Any other stereotypes you've drawn about me that you'd like me to debunk?
You're welcome. :)
Regardless, saying Bioshock is a dumbed-down, consoleized mess is a load of shit. If that's a dumbed-down, consolized mess, every FPS ever made is. It's a perfectly fine FPS with some RPG elements thrown in, there's nothing consoleized or dumbed-down about it.
I'm sorry, but SMK is, hands-down, the worst in the series. Sure, it was good for its day. It's terrible now, and the only thing, imo, that keeps people attached to it is nostalgia and rose-colored glasses.
The OP most certainly did not say that. Apparently you, sir, are fucking blind. The OP said that things are "rapidly progressing" towards that level of tyranny. Quite different from calling it equivalent.
Not that most people listen.
I disagree, I think Double Dash was a ton better than DS. In the end, though, Nintendo will be hard-pressed to go wrong, no matter what they do. They'd just better let me steer with a Cube controller if I want, I doubt that steering wheel is going to do it for me.
...we'd have to string up... every call center employee... :(I work IT at a call center, you insensitive clod! Please don't kill me!
I liked KOTOR 2, but regardless, Obsidian developed KOTOR 2, not Bioware. Don't blame (or credit) Bioware for anything in KOTOR 2 except the engine.
(Pardon me for being cynical, but I can't help but be afraid that a company like EA, known for mediocrity, is going to drag down Bioware, known for excellence)
I hate it when people demand to play like that. I have friends who like to play no items, on Final Destination, and I refuse to play smash bros with them for the most part. The items, and the random crazy shit that happens, are what makes the game fun! Cut that out, and you cut the soul of the game out. Not to mention that Final Destination is entirely too trippy for my eyes.